Welcome to Women’s Audio Mission
Women’s Audio Mission is a San Francisco-based recording studio and nonprofit dedicated to the advancement of women and gender-expansive people in music, audio production, and creative technology, fields in which they are critically underrepresented: fewer than 5% of the people creating the sounds, music, and media in the daily soundtrack of our lives are women or gender-expansive individuals. With locations in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, WAM offers accessible training, mentorship, and conferences to serve over 3,000 women, girls, and gender-expansive people annually in order to inspire them to amplify their voices and become the innovators of tomorrow.
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Programs at WAM:
WAM’s Adult Education Program provides music production and industry certification training to 1,000+ women/gender-expansive students every year. This accessible, hands-on training includes the exploratory Academy course series, certification courses in Pro Tools & Dolby Atmos and workshops with industry experts.
Internship & Job Placement Program
WAM’s Internship & Job Placement Program serves 90+ college-age women & gender-expansive young adults each year with education, shadowing opportunities, career counseling, mentorship and job placement in creative careers at companies like Dolby, Pixar, NPR, Sony, Disney, ESPN, & more, with 2,500+ interns hired from WAM since 2003.
WAMCon is a national recording arts conference series for women/gender-expansive aspiring recording engineers and music producers. WAMCon has been hosted in LA, Nashville, NYC, Boston, and virtually, reaching 2,500+ people and featuring producers, songwriters, and audio engineers who have worked with everyone from P!nk to Selena Gomez to Cardi B and Rihanna.
WAM’s world-class recording studios & training facilities are the only professional studios in the world built and run entirely by women & gender-expansive staff. The studios have a vast collection of audio gear, including state-of-the-art Dolby Atmos Spatial Sound technology, and has hosted projects by R.E.M., Timbaland, Divinity Roxx with Beyoncé’s band, Alanis Morrissette, and Radiohead.
WAM’s award-winning after-school program annually provides 2,000+ under-resourced San Francisco Bay Area youth with free music production and media arts training, equipping youth with arts skills and the confidence, creativity, & mentorship needed to imagine themselves as the artists, producers, and storytellers that the music industry lacks.
WAM’s Local Sirens Artist Residency & Concert Series has supported 200+ BIPOC women and gender-expansive musicians through free recording services for commissioned work and paid performance opportunities to expand their audience. Each year, a cohort of 10+ musicians create new work recorded in WAM’s women-run studio, providing critical support for local artists.